Lexicographical Neighbors of Thetches
Literary usage of Thetches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Modern Husbandman, Or, The Practice of Farming by William Ellis (1744)
"Or, if the thetches are not too forward in their Growth, it may be better ...
thetches, for feeding their Store- Sheep on them in the Field, will enjoy this ..."
2. The Modern Husbandman, Or, The Practice of Farming by William Ellis (1744)
"... and thetches are commonly cleaned thus: As foon as they are thrn ... or thetches
to rife on the Top, ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1758)
"And afterwards the green thetches mult always lie before them, and they mult never be
... when they come at the thetches, as to hove ..."
4. Reprinted Glossaries by Walter William Skeat (1879)
"Fitches or vetches, Vicia sativa, L. ' In Hertfordshire we call them thetches.'
They ' may be sown for an early crop about Michaelmas, and then they are ..."
5. Old Country and Farming Words: Gleaned from Agricultural Books by James Britten (1880)
"Fitches or vetches, Vicia sativa, L. ' In Hertfordshire we call them thetches.'
They ' may be sown for an early crop about Michaelmas, ..."
6. Publications by English Dialect Society (1893)
"All vetches are known as ' thetches' or ' Thatches ' in Wilts, being 'Blue,' 'Yellow,'
or ' Red' thetches according to the colour of the flower. ..."
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